Reflections on my very original intent of sharing on social media platforms.

There is no shortcut to forging genuine, lasting relationships, no matter how advanced technology can be.

Someone reached out on LinkedIn with this pitch to help me:
Get more clients.
Assess the quality of my leads.
Make me a LinkedIn top voice.
Boost my followers and engagement figures through the roof.

Then came the pièce de résistance:
Leveraging AI to do all this while mimicking me perfectly. Every post, every reply, every online interaction - crafted to sound exactly like me, without me lifting a single finger.

So to this someone, here’s my message:
🚫 Top voice on LinkedIn, I don’t need to be.
⚠️ A huge follower base sounds tempting but I am not gonna be its slave.
⛔ A lucrative business wasn’t what I traded a financially comfy full-time job for.

Here’s what truly matter:
💡 That I connect with coachees who ignite my passion for nurturing;
💡 Clients who bring out the best in me;
💡 The like-minded whose visions I deeply resonate with.
💡That I stay focused on my original intent.

Along the way, I
➡️ savour the pleasure of crafting each post personally, with a little help from AI to give me feedback.
➡️ experience the sting when a post doesn’t outwit the LinkedIn algorithm. But so what? I am not gonna get into this wrestling with it.
➡️ appreciate the gratification when new connections are built - personally, wholeheartedly.

There’s no shortcut to forging genuine, lasting relationships.
❌ How meaningless it would be should I one day become LinkedIn Top Voice but I don’t exactly know what I had ‘written’ or ‘said’.
❌ How guilty I would be should I one day own a I huge follower base but they were not exactly interacting with me.

While I appreciate the convenience of such service, I am reluctant to let it do my work on LinkedIn, because it is - NOT ME.

And so I am willing to do my part here.

Let this be my commitment to my work, my connections.